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[Facts] Eliara and Liara
Two favorites of mine: Eliara and Liara.My guess is that they are new creations but maybe someone has something else?Eliara seems to appear in Brazil a bit.For Liara there seems to be a computer game with a character named this. But maybe someone has something else?Please rate my list: https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/6232
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I guess, they derive from Eliora and Liora influenced by Eliana and Liana.Eliara does not really appear in Brazil. I never met anyone with that name, though Eliana and Eliane are quite common there. The census of 2010 states 1744 people named Eliara - of over 200 Million inhabitants (Liara: 1662 persons).I checked some portuguese websites, but I couldn't find any valid informations on either name.
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It's also common for n to be misread as r and vice versa. So they could come directly as mistranscriptions of Eliana and Liana, and then became established as an independent name.

This message was edited 2/14/2023, 8:02 PM

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Really?
I never knew that. Actually can't think of any name where that happend right now.
Do you have more information an that? It's interesting.
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I think that they could easily be variants of the Hebrew names Eliora and Liora. Perhaps they were first created by someone who much preferred the look and sound of the 'a' over the 'o', thinking that the 'a' made the names sound softer and more elegant. It could also be that people kept misreading Eliora and Liora as Eliara and Liara (in handwritten Latin script) often enough that eventually some people began to see them as actual variants or otherwise legitimate alternatives to the originals.
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Yes, that's possible. Or maybe just a letter added to Lara and Elara. Thank you!
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They are both pretty
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